The Missionary as Medium: China and the Origins of Enlightenment Tolerance
The paper focuses on the early modern imagination of China in Europe and its contribution to the Early Enlightenment. It sets out by recalling the precarious condition of the Early Modern missionary understood as a complex medium of intercultural exchange. In the second step, the article engages wit...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2020
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40064/4015 |
| Summary: | The paper focuses on the early modern imagination of China in Europe and its contribution to the Early Enlightenment. It sets out by recalling the precarious condition of the Early Modern missionary understood as a complex medium of intercultural exchange. In the second step, the article engages with the Jesuit mission from a media philosophical perspective and investigates the specific form of subjectivity it fostered to then focus on the intracatholic quarrels and the central figure of the missionary Domingo Navarrete who contributed to a mission-critical Enlightenment discourse that culminated in a politics of tolerance and the rise of European secularism. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |